Calibrating a forest landscape model to simulate frequent fire in Mediterranean-type shrublands

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1641-1653

  Syphard, Alexandra D ^a   Yang, Jian ^b   Franklin, Janet ^a,c   He, Hong S ^b   Keeley, Jon E ^d,e  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Fire regime; LANDIS; Landscape model; Mediterranean type ecosystems; Plant functional type; Scenario analysis; Southern California

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LANDSCAPE CHANGE SCENARIOS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

FORESTRY;

CALIBRATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FOREST FIRE; FORESTRY MODELING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

FIRES; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250733516     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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